Alliance has announced its ALL18 cohort lineup, selecting 19 companies from 2,500 applications across robotics, AI, stablecoins, energy and onchain infrastructure. The cohort features strong pedigree: 35% of founders hail from top-five global universities, 25% have prior successful startup exits, and 20% previously worked at Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI or SpaceX. Notable projects include Tera Compute, which provides GPU rental for AI startups with $20 million in signed contracts; UpDown, offering short-term up/down trading on stocks and crypto assets with $1.5 million weekly notional volume; Wallib, delivering stablecoin dollar accounts for Latin American immigrants in the US with $1.3 million weekly TPV; Suno, tokenizing solar power station revenue and having distributed $1.3 million; and Cloud9, providing cross-border payment accounts for African SMEs. Alliance has opened applications for its next cohort, ALL19, with a submission deadline of November 18.